Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 353: Ethnic Group
There are almost no buildings on the outskirts of the boss's consciousness space.

There were only large areas of sparse vegetation that looked like they had been planted only recently.

The phase beast is roaming in the sky above the outskirts of the city.

From a distance, it looks like an ordinary manta ray that can swim in the air, nervously observing this new world.

If it had not been brought into the consciousness space along with Chen Ming, it would probably have caused a fuss.

The boss landed in a shuttle and occupied the area.

Chen Ming walked down alone and came to the front of the phase beast.

Although Chen Ming was a robot before, it did not prevent the Phase Beast from sensing the familiar aura of the person in front of it, as well as the faint power of the scarlet dimension.

The phase beast relaxed and lay down in front of Chen Ming.

Chen Ming felt that the phase beast's condition seemed not to be very good, even its consciousness body appeared tired.

But he couldn't help the Phase Beast without communication.

So we can only speed up as much as possible.

The boss on the shuttle nearby activated his psychic power when Chen Ming came in front of the phase beast.

It seemed as if nerves made of psychic energy grew out from the consciousness bodies of Chen Ming and the phase beast.

The phase beast was a little resistant for a moment, but with Chen Ming's comfort it immediately calmed down and watched quietly as the two nerves converged together.

The nerves connected Chen Ming and the phase beast's consciousness together.

Allowing Chen Ming and the Phase Beast to directly sense each other's thoughts.

The boss believes that this two-way communication of consciousness is most appropriate for the current situation.

That is, if the Phase Behemoth had just chosen to resist, the boss would have had to use slightly more coercive means.

But it looks like it's no longer useful.

Chen Ming's consciousness closed his eyes.

He wondered if the consciousness communication constructed by the boss would be any different from the consciousness communication between him and the Queen of Insects.

can only say.

The difference is obvious. I don’t know if it’s because the boss’s psychic effects don’t work well on creatures, or if it’s some other reason.

The connection between Chen Ming and the phase beast's consciousness was somewhat intermittent, and they could not communicate smoothly.

He could only perceive some fragments of thoughts, consciousness and memories from the phase beast's consciousness, and see some less coherent fragments.

It roughly connects some of Phase Beast's experiences, mixed with some thoughts and emotions that Phase Beast wants to share with Chen Ming.

It was rather fragmentary, but Chen Ming still understood its meaning.

To put it simply, phase behemoths are indeed species that live in phase space. They are not solitary creatures, but exist in groups.

The group would not be too large. The group of phase beasts in front of Chen Ming only had a dozen or so individuals.

However, no matter how small the group is, a special individual will still be born in each group.

It possesses powerful talents and strength that are different from other phase beasts. It can tear apart the phase space and the scarlet dimension and seize power from the scarlet dimension.

When this special individual is still weak, the entire group will do its best to raise and protect it.

And when this special individual grows up, it will need to take on the responsibility of feeding the entire population.

It's equivalent to the patriarch.

In other words, this phase behemoth regarded Chen Ming as a special individual of their tribe.

After all, Chen Ming does have the ability to tear open the scarlet dimension and seize power.

Then, because Chen Ming was communicating with the Phase Beast through a robot, and the robot was the size of an ordinary person, the Phase Beast thought that Chen Ming was still in his infancy and needed to grow and be nurtured.

So the reasons why Phase Monster did those things before are explained clearly.

It treated Chen Ming as an underage kid, so it decided to get food to feed Chen Ming and raise him up first.

That's why it felt confused when Chen Ming digested a large piece of flesh and blood from the scarlet dimension but his body size did not change at all.

Then he turned around and continued to look for or snatch the scarlet flesh and blood for Chen Ming.

At this point in the exchange of consciousness, Chen Ming suddenly couldn't hold himself together.

Isn't Phase Behemoth's way of identifying with other species a bit crude?

As long as it can move in the phase space and can seize and digest the power of the scarlet dimension, it will be considered as the same kind...

Just as Chen Ming was thinking this, the phase beast that was connected to his consciousness gave Chen Ming a response that was roughly "Isn't that so?"

This made Chen Ming even more unable to hold back.

Anyway, that's roughly the situation.

The phase behemoth wanted to feed Chen Ming, and then let Chen Ming maintain the tribe.

Although this group seems to consist of only it and Chen Ming, this is what it means.

As for why the Phase Beast was not in its own group, but ran out and met Chen Ming, the Phase Beast also gave a response.

The emotion that accompanied it during the process of consciousness communication turned into the anger that Chen Ming once felt.

And the object of this anger.

It's the mechanical family.

To put it simply, the patriarch of the original tribe of this phase behemoth found a suitable place to tear open the space and hunt.

Then this process was discovered by the mechanical clan.

Chen Ming could probably guess what happened next.

But he didn't have to guess now.

Although the Phase Beast does not understand what the Mechanicals did, it can see what the Mechanicals did.

If it can see it, it means Chen Ming can see it, and if Chen Ming can see it, it means he can figure out what the mechanical race did.

The facts were similar to what he had guessed before.

Everything the Mechanical Race does is for dimensional infection, all for the purpose of obtaining the power of the Scarlet Dimension and "destruction" during the dimensional infection.

It’s just that the mechanical race is extremely hostile to humans, so dimensional infection will not occur inside the star field where there are no humans of the mechanical race.

But dimensional infection is an excellent weapon against humans.

So it is obvious that the mechanical race needs to create a dimensional infection.

But according to Chen Ming's understanding, the mechanical family does not conduct any experiments related to humans.

The mechanical race has only one way to deal with humans: kill them all.

So this caused some logical conflicts in the mechanical race's actions, and they have not made any progress.

But just right.

Because of the Phase Beasts, or the advancement of the Empire's phase ship technology, or even because Yuhui had previously used phase technology to transport things over extremely long distances.

In short, the mechanical race picked up phase technology again.

Indigenous creatures in phase space have been discovered.

So when the leader of the Phase Beast tribe tore open the rift, the Mechanical tribe disrupted the hunting process and seized the food.

That is the scarlet flesh and blood.

Prepare to bring it back to the normal universe and cause dimensional infection.

Although Chen Ming actually only saw what the mechanical race did to the phase beast race through the phase beast's memory, and the previous ones were all speculations, he felt that it was basically correct.

Under normal circumstances, dimensional infection requires human presence to be triggered, but after it occurs, it can expand as long as there are living things.

The machines will kill all humans, but they will not kill all ordinary animals.

What followed was definitely that the mechanical race brought the scarlet flesh and blood they obtained to the normal universe, and brought it to the dilapidated mechanical race galaxy that Chen Ming had visited before. Of course, it was definitely not dilapidated before.

The Mechanoids allowed the dimensional infection to spread, and finally eliminated it before it got out of control, taking what they needed.

Destroy the core.

If it was just a matter of snatching food from a tiger's mouth, then the Phase Beast shouldn't have such a great hatred towards the Mechanical Race.

It's not to the point where the phase beasts are rolling around in the mechanical colonies every day.

Apparently, in order to prevent troublesome creatures like the Phase Beast from interfering with their plans, the Mechanicals did something other than just seizing the Crimson Flesh.

This eventually led to the tribe's patriarch being dragged into the Scarlet Dimension.

That's all.

It seems that the phase beasts have ways to obtain food other than the patriarch tearing open dimensional rifts.

Even if you are in trouble with the mechanical tribe, you will not starve to death. You can just escape first, then cultivate a new generation of tribe leaders and come back for revenge.

but.

In the scene of the phase behemoth's memory.

A few minutes after the patriarch was drawn into the scarlet dimension and the rift was completely sealed.

A huge shadow tore open the membrane between the scarlet dimension and the phase space and returned to the phase space.

The memory of the Phase Beast afterwards was a mess.

The leader of the Phase Beast tribe went in there for at least a few minutes and naturally fell into madness. It began to attack everything it saw, including the mechanical tribe and its own kind.

The patriarch is the most powerful being among the phase behemoths. He came out alive a few minutes after entering the scarlet dimension. Even though he has gone mad, his power is real.

It naturally turned into a terrifying creature.

At that time, there was simply not enough combat power in the phase space, which eventually led to the destruction of the mechanical race's galaxy.

This also resulted in only the phase monster that Chen Ming encountered surviving in the end.

It can be said that the destruction core and destroyer of the mechanical race were purchased with the lives of this phase behemoth race.

Although the galaxy was destroyed, the Mechanoids successfully conducted a dimensional infection experiment and created "destruction".

As for where did the leader of the phase beasts behind go?
Chen Ming felt that there was a high probability that it was wandering in the Mechanical Clan's star field, interfering with the Mechanical Clan's movements to a certain extent.

Because when Chen Ming and Bai Quan were talking about things on the battlefield before, they mentioned some unreasonable points on the old defense map of the Mechanical Clan.

That would make sense if we took into account the situation of a terrifying behemoth with phase powers roaming erratically in the mechanical star field.

And it just so happened that a few days ago, Chen Ming had a cruiser destroyed by a powerful phase force.

At that time, Chen Ming only saw a huge shadow.

Now he was sure that it was the crazy phase behemoth leader who did it.

What the small phase behemoth has been doing these days is to snatch food from the already crazy patriarch.

However, Chen Ming didn't quite understand what kind of species the Phase Beast was? Why did it appear in the Phase Space? How did it evolve?
But he couldn't understand it in detail now.

Because at this time, the consciousness connection between Chen Ming and the phase beast was disconnected.

The boss's voice sounded in his ears: "Its vital signs are deteriorating, and its consciousness is beginning to become unstable." This means that the small phase behemoth is seriously injured and is about to die.

The boss immediately took Chen Ming out of the consciousness space.

The phase behemoth lying on the ground not far away was almost lifeless at this time, with only weak firepower left.

"So what are you going to do? Use this phase beast, or..."

Chen Ming still remembered the previous times when the small phase beasts had taken "food" for him.

Although it was the Small Phase Beast that made a mistake, this did not affect Chen Ming's fact that he took away the flesh and blood that the Small Phase Beast had snatched from the patriarch.

So he said decisively: "I want to save it."

"How to save?"

"Just like its leader did."

Chen Ming looked back at his boss.

The boss immediately understood what he meant.

After all, the boss must have been able to see and understand the communication between Chen Ming and the Phase Beast.

So what Chen Ming meant was that he was worried that the boss would be affected by the scarlet power when he activated the Crimson Rift.

Although the two of them are still in the phase space, it is better to avoid some unnecessary trouble if possible.

The boss stepped back a few steps and said, "It's okay, just do it, I can protect myself."

Chen Ming nodded.

He completely focused his consciousness on the robot in front of the phase beast.

He pressed his mechanical arm onto the now limp tentacle on the Phase Beast's head.

In addition to being a tool for Phase Beast to use phase power, this tentacle is also another tool for Phase Beast to communicate.

When Chen Ming touched the tentacles, they vibrated slightly, and then nothing happened.

Chen knew clearly that time was running out.

No more time wasted.

His consciousness was focused on the conscious space, and while using his mental power to cover the phase beast, he opened the closed bloody crack.

The closed rift is safe and can be moved slowly.

But the moment Chen Ming took the initiative to open the crack, the crack once again released a terrifying suction force as it had in the past, which seemed to be able to completely suck Chen Ming in.

While Chen Ming was resisting this force, his mental strength began to be consumed violently again. The steel jungle on the edge of the isolated island once again rusted into dark red rust.

Just when Chen Ming tried to use his mental power to directly seize power from the scarlet dimension.

The blue-purple light that originally existed in Chen Ming's consciousness space suddenly covered the entire space.

It protects Chen Ming's consciousness and also protects the consciousness space.

Prevent Chen Ming from being overly affected by the power of the Scarlet Dimension.

Moreover, this light also formed a one-way film on the crack, allowing Chen Ming to seize power more easily and preventing the negative effects of the scarlet dimension from affecting him.

Although the bluish-purple light was rapidly fading, it was enough for Chen Ming to snatch "food" from the scarlet dimension that was enough to feed the phase beast.

Just as Chen Ming began to contact the scarlet dimension again, the boss next to him was also watching Chen Ming's actions intently, thinking about Chen Ming's experience, and feeling Chen Ming's power.

He gradually immersed himself in his own consciousness.

Once again appeared in his city.

In his hands, one red and one blue, representing the power of the scarlet dimension and phase space, were swirling.

They are very weak, but they seem to be able to grow and grow enough to match Chen Ming's ability to tear open cracks.

But the boss also noticed that some extremely subtle changes had taken place in his consciousness.

The appearance of his consciousness seemed to become somewhat similar to Chen Ming.

"It has been many years since this happened..."

He sighed and completely extinguished the two forces in his hands.

His consciousness instantly returned to its original state, and only the objectively existing phase space remained in his consciousness space.

Such a complete space has enabled his abilities to make unprecedented progress without affecting his own foundation.

All he needs to do is continue on the path that Chen Ming reminded him to take. He doesn't need to imitate Chen Ming to make progress.

Two years... or three years ago, Chen Ming was still a young man who had just become a psychic.

And now I am able to walk on the same track with him.

The boss opened his eyes.

I saw that Chen Ming also finished what he was doing at about the same time.

The belly of the phase monster in front of him was slightly bulging.

Obviously, he was fed by Chen Ming.

Seeing that Chen Ming seemed to be still doing something in his consciousness space, the boss did not make any move and continued to wait.

At this time, Chen Ming was relying on the last bit of power of the light left in the phase space to re-close the crack in the scarlet dimension.

A scarlet force that was even more powerful than before was already hovering in his consciousness space.

These forces are no longer aggressive, and as long as he is given some time, he will be able to digest them completely.

As for the light in phase space.

Although it is invisible at this time, as long as Chen Ming is still in the phase space, the power of this blue-purple light will gradually and slowly recover.

It can help Chen Ming solve the problem of the Crimson Rift, and also help Chen Ming determine the next time to enter the Crimson Dimension to seize power.

After the crack is completely sealed.

Chen Ming finally started to move.

The boss next to him also asked at this time; "Is it over?"

"It's over. It's a success."

Chen Ming's robot reached out and patted the phase beast in front of it. It had begun to regain its vitality. Relying on the large amount of scarlet power that Chen Ming had seized, its injuries were recovering rapidly.

New flesh quickly grew on the wound and the scales returned to normal in a blink of an eye.

Soon, it regained consciousness.

It made intimate sounds to Chen Ming, and its tentacles swirled around Chen Ming's body.

It followed Chen Ming's robot closely, not wanting to leave at all.

It seemed that it regarded Chen Ming as its new patriarch.

So is there something wrong with the Phase Beast's cognition?
But this is not a bad thing for Chen Ming.

It's not like he hasn't had pets before, it's just that this one is a little bigger.

And it just so happens that Chen Ming has many projects related to phase space that he needs to participate in.

Although his understanding of phase space is not deep enough at present, his prostheses and robots have been researching technology in this area.

It was only a matter of time before he was at the forefront of those projects at the Ship Institute.

And the Phase Behemoth can help him a lot in these aspects.

Even now, Chen Ming can ask Phase Behemoth to go to the Ship Research Institute to help in his name.

There won't be any problems as long as he's watching the whole process.

Even everyone in the Ship Research Institute had to worship both the Phase Beast and Chen Ming.

But there's no rush now.

Chen Ming's initial purpose of contacting the Phase Beast was to be able to communicate with such a species that had conflicts with the mechanical race, to see if there was any way to achieve a win-win situation, such as jointly causing trouble for the mechanical race or something like that.

Although now he finally realized that this was just a conflict between the phase behemoths and the mechanical race.

And only two of the phase behemoths survived. One was too weak and could only annoy the mechanical race at most, while the other had already fallen into madness.

But this does not mean that Chen Ming cannot use the phase beast to cause damage to the mechanical race.

That crazy patriarch still has his value.

Therefore, Chen Ming had to thoroughly understand the situation of the phase behemoth group in order to decide what to do next.

There is a way, neural link.

No need to trouble the boss this time.

Chen Ming once again took out the thick nerve that the Queen Insect had made before.

After Chen Ming personally fed the phase beast, it no longer had the same resistance to Chen Ming as before.

It silently accepted Chen Ming's insertion of the nerve into the gap between its scales, and connected it to its own nerves through proliferation.

Chen Ming also used his mental power to directly connect to this nerve and built a more stable channel for consciousness communication.

Then, he understood what kind of existence the phase behemoth race was.

Phase beasts are life in phase space.

They chase the gaps that may appear at any time in the phase space leading to the scarlet dimension, and use their own phase power to repair the gaps and obtain food from the gaps.
A special individual who is strong enough, that is, the patriarch, can tear open a gap at any time.

Their relationship with phase space is like the symbiotic bacteria in the human body.

They maintain the safety of phase space.

Or there is another possibility.

Because phase space is a special dimension, Chen Ming believes that this dimension may have self-awareness.

This dimension and the scarlet dimension have a connection that is closer than the normal universe, but also firmly isolated.

Therefore, the extremely aggressive scarlet dimension will occasionally break through the barriers between dimensions and invade into the phase space.

The consciousness of the dimension itself cannot handle everything personally.

So they took the initiative to give birth to the existence of phase behemoths.

Of course, this is just Chen Ming's guess.

The most important thing he learned from the Phase Beasts was that the Phase Beasts were creatures that existed in pursuit of the power of the Scarlet Dimension.

The leader of their tribe went mad because of the scarlet power.

and so.

Just need some guidance of scarlet power.

The patriarch should follow Chen Ming's idea and go to some places.

(End of this chapter)